B. H. Roberts Quotes
[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
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I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.
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In a novel, you have space to develop a character or a scene. You don't have that luxury in a 700-800-word picture book.
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There are people who get to be three-dimensional humans in the United States, and there are people who do not.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.
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[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.
